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		<title>LED Eyelashes Designed to Make Asian Eyes Bigger</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some Asian women, appearing more Westernized through having larger eyes is a very real concern. Short of plastic surgery and makeup, there are not many effective ways to give off the appearance of being more in tune with the Occident than the Orient.

Designer Soomi Park has thus developed LED eyelashes to give Asian women [...]


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	For some Asian women, appearing more Westernized through having larger eyes is a very real concern. Short of plastic surgery and makeup, there are not many effective ways to give off the appearance of being more in tune with the Occident than the Orient.

Designer Soomi Park has thus developed LED eyelashes to give Asian women [...]


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		<title>World&#8217;s Second Jumbo Jet Gathers Dust in South Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where do you expect to find one of the oldest Boeing 747s? In a far off location in Korea, waiting for a rust-filled death after a failed restaurant venture? That is the case of the first commercially used Boeing 747 which can now be found in a dilapidated condition in Namyangju-Si, South Korea.

This particular plane, [...]


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	Where do you expect to find one of the oldest Boeing 747s? In a far off location in Korea, waiting for a rust-filled death after a failed restaurant venture? That is the case of the first commercially used Boeing 747 which can now be found in a dilapidated condition in Namyangju-Si, South Korea.

This particular plane, [...]


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		<title>Korean Woman Spends 10 Million on Driving Tests</title>
		<link>http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/09/24/korean-women-spends-10-million-driving-tests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cha Sa-Soon, an elderly South Korean woman, has inadvertently reaffirmed age-old jokes about female drivers by closing on a world record for most failed driver&#8217;s tests. The 68 year old pensioner from the Wanju county has failed the theory section 775 times.

Cha first tried out for the written exam in April 2005 and has faired [...]


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	Cha Sa-Soon, an elderly South Korean woman, has inadvertently reaffirmed age-old jokes about female drivers by closing on a world record for most failed driver&#8217;s tests. The 68 year old pensioner from the Wanju county has failed the theory section 775 times.

Cha first tried out for the written exam in April 2005 and has faired [...]


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		<title>Salt Detector Could Mean Healthier Koreans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salt. Where would we be without it? It improves the flavor of everything; even sweet foods get tastier with the addition of a few grains of salt. But most doctors say that when it comes to salt, there can be too much of a good thing.
The people of Korea don’t seem to have caught on [...]


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	Salt. Where would we be without it? It improves the flavor of everything; even sweet foods get tastier with the addition of a few grains of salt. But most doctors say that when it comes to salt, there can be too much of a good thing.
The people of Korea don’t seem to have caught on [...]


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		<title>South Korea To Categorize Dogs as Livestock?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the world going to the dogs or are the poor dogs going the way of the world? The answer is up in the air, at least in Seoul, South Korea, where an appeal has been made to the central government to propose categorization of dogs as livestock in order to properly regulate the trade [...]


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	Is the world going to the dogs or are the poor dogs going the way of the world? The answer is up in the air, at least in Seoul, South Korea, where an appeal has been made to the central government to propose categorization of dogs as livestock in order to properly regulate the trade [...]


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